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The Wikimedia Foundation has decided the time is right to implement HTTPS on all its projects, for all users, all the time. It's been possible to access the Foundation's works – notably Wikipedia – with HTTPs for a while if you're willing to jump through some hoops. The Foundation's now decided to go all-HTTPs, all the time View full story

Hackers can easily swipe personal data from LG and Samsung smartwatches, researchers have revealed, with neither brand encrypting sensitive data. According to researchers at the University of New Haven, hackers can easily extract personal data, including contacts, messages and health information, from both the Samsung Gear 2 and LG G Watch. View full story

Ransomware may be earning criminals a very healthy 1425 percent return on their investment, but the real crime is that organisations continue to make schoolboy errors when it comes to securing their public facing networks. View full story

A hacker from Mississauga, Canada got imprisoned for leading a worldwide computer hacking group that managed to penetrate the U.S military network and famous online gaming systems Microsoft’s Xbox. View full story

Imagine that one of your Facebook friends recommends a link to you. You click it, and you end up on some kind of hocus-pocus diet supplement scam page. "More internet drivel," you think, so you close the page, shrug and get on with your work. No harm done, right? Well, "Yes" and "No" – or, perhaps, "No" and "Yes." View full story

Security experts are warning of another large-scale malvertising campaign targeting the OpenX ad platform, which could be exposing as many as 50 million global internet users to the Bunitu trojan. Websense Security Labs claimed OpenX is a frequent target for criminals keen to reach as many victims as possible. View full story

Cyber attacks targeting critical infrastructure could take power grids offline, according to Graham Wright, chief information security officer at National Grid. Wright gave the warning during a Westminster eForum session attended by V3 where he said that the threat posed by malware like Stuxnet and Shamoon is real and serious. " the critical infrastructure, and nothing moves without infrastructure. So we're at the centre. If we go down the nation goes down," he said. View full story

Hackers spammed Facebook timelines and newsfeeds with malicious malware that spread pornographic videos and images. The attack left hundreds of social media users in India red-faced as they had to clarify it to their friends that they hadn’t sent the message. View full story

Hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for every federal employee, a government worker union said Thursday, saying that the cyber theft of U.S. employee information was more damaging than the Obama administration has acknowledged. View full story

Kaspersky Lab says it has discovered a new, advanced persistent threat that appears to have been launched by the gang behind Stuxnet and Duqu malware families. But while security vendors typically unearth intrusions in their customers’ networks, in this case Kaspersky’s own networks also fell victim to the attack campaign, thanks in part to attackers employing a zero-day Window exploit. View full story